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5. Bakura's Finger Part II

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-::Kaiba's Office::

There was bashing everywhere from down on the first floor. Kaiba sighed and sat back on his big overstuffed leather chair. He sighed again and began rubbing his temples.

Kaiba in a muttering voice: Quiet my ass.

He picked up a pencil and began scribbling down some notes. All of a sudden he heard this loud scream that made him tear his paper in half. He twitched his eye.

"OH MY GOD, MY FINGER!!!"-

Kaiba slammed the palms of his hands on his oak desk, causing many pencils and frames to jitter and fall off.

Kaiba in a roaring voice: Goddammit to hell!

With those last words, he bolted straight up from his chair and stormed out the door, slamming it in such force that made books fall out of its place from the shelves that lined the walls of his office.

:::Living Room:::

Yami and the others look up from their busy conversation.

Joey: What the hell was that?

Duke: That sounded like Bakura.

Aki: Geez. The guy can scream.

Ryou: Do you think he's all right? He didn't sound too good back there.

Yami and Malik exchange worried glances. There faces turned a tad too white as they both gave an involuntary shiver; the rest quirked their eyebrow up at them in question.

Aya: What's wrong?

Ami: Cat got your tongue?

Yami shaking his head: It's da curb.

Aya: The what?

Yami: Da curb!

Yugi: The curb? What's the curb?

Yami: Da curb you foo! Da curb!

Ami: What's so special about a curb, Yami?

Yami: Stubid stubid foo! It's da curb!

Aki sarcastically: Yes, oh great one. We'd looooove to hear about a wise and great curb that once ruled all of Egypt while you were getting a suntan.

Yami: DA CURB!!! DA CURB!!!

Malik suddenly pounced on Yami, pounding him down to the ground. After, he slapped him twice on the cheeks.

Malik: The CURSE your sonavabitch! The CURSE! Pronounce the goddam word right, will you?

Yami in a choking voice: What's with your massive weight, Malik?! I've held whales lighter than this!

Malik waving a pointing finger at him: You bastard! I've starved myself for this un- proportional body! Take that back!

Aki with a raised eyebrow: He's not kidding either.

Aya: Oh come on Aki. All anime characters look un-proportional. That's how they get all good looking.

Ami: Nu-uh. Neon Genesis Evangelion characters have perfectly proportional bodi-....well, at least the guys do...*starts mumbling about model thin girls that look like skeletons*

Ryou: What about the curse?

Malik's eyes darken: This all starts way back, when Yami and that big bastard priest was still alive.

Yami smacked Malik on the forehead and gave him an evil glare, but Malik waved it aside and ignored it.

Malik: All the cooks in the palace had fallen ill from some poison in the food, so when the Priest was hungry, he had no one to cook for him.

The Priest grew mad, but in the end he was reduced to going to the kitchen and cooking up something for himself. Though, the problem was, the Priest was a big dope at cooking. Didn't even know how to crack an egg.

Well, you could see the problem he had when he wanted a big steak dinner. If you ask me, I think that idiot of a bastard is stupid. He could've ordered the guards to chop off every cooks head and made it for stew. (Got a big stare from everyone.)

Anyways, the man grabs the biggest butcher knife in all realms of Egypt. God knows why he did, but he did it anyway. So, he takes this massive steak and places it on the counter.

With one quick swing, the man cuts off his finger.

I mean, geez, his finger. How stupid can he get? And the blade was dull too. Hah! Figures how he got such a high rank.

Well, after that, the priest puts a curse on every knife and Egyptian man at that time. Whichever man wields a stupid goddam kitchen knife will get his finger chopped off. (And with that, Malik ends the tale with a swish with his right hand.)

Yami and Duke nodded in sympathy as the others stared at him as if insanity got to him before sanity did.

Joey: What the hell are you talking about?

Aki: That's the stupidest thing I have ever heard!

Ami: Beyond stupid.

Aya: Beyond idiotic.

Yugi: I thought it was funny.

Ryou: Good show Malik! That was a nice tale you told us.

Yami: It's not a lie! It's true! Even ask Duke!

Duke: Well, actually....after hearing it from Malik..I'm kinda reconsidering...

Yami glaring at Malik: Idiot! That was stupid! And the Priest didn't chop off his finger! He chopped off his dick!

Malik: No he didn't! That was you when you tried to go swimming in the Nile River when it was still invested by man eating Karibohs!

Yami: That is not true! That stupid tomb robber made up that lie when he realized I wasn't going to die anytime soon.

Kaiba entering the room in an irritated fashion: My past life chopped of his own dick?

Everyone jumped at the sound of Kaiba's voice.

Aki: Geez Kaiba! Talk about giving people heart attacks!

Ami: Ever heard of knocking before?

Kaiba in his cold and usual voice: No I haven't, and what's this about me chopping off my finger with a kitchen knife?

Malik raising his palms: Don't look at me. I only speak the truth.

Aya: It was nothing really. You just got pissed and cursed Bakura's finger off.

Kaiba with raised eyebrows: I won't ask, but he deserved it.

Yami in a sarcastic voice: No, reaaally.

There was some more noise and a huge hole appeared from the wall separating the living room and kitchen. Debris scattered the whole room, causing the whole gang to duck in terror....except for Seto Kaiba of course. He just looked pissed.

Kaiba: What the hell happened to my wall!?

Ami: It appears to be busted.

Aki: Yeah, speak the obvious.

Bakura's head suddenly pops out of the hole. His face looked pale and in pain. In other words, children could not be as frightened enough of his horrendous face.

Bakura: Dammit! Why haven't you called for help? I'm bleeding you good for nothing bastards! I could be dead any moment!

Yami: Bakura! Are you all right?

Bakura: God no!

Yami: Thank god. (Walks away and plops himself on the leather couch.)

Bakura with a twitching eye: Just wait when I get out of here, Pharaoh! I'll have your head!

Ryou: You don't look so good, Bakura. Why don't you get out of that hole and rest a bit.

Kaiba: Bakura, get your lazy carcass out of my wall.

Bakura: I'm freakin' bleeding here!

Mokuba: Do you want me to get the first aid?

Kaiba: And waste bandages? Forget it.

Joey: Kaiba, aren't you rich enough to afford bandages? I mean, there only a buck at the dollar store.

Kaiba: I don't care how cheap they are puppy. I am not using them on him.

Duke: Man Kaiba, you can be ruthless.

Kaiba shooting Duke a menacing glare: Don't get me started.

Aya: You know what?

Ami: What?

Aya: Kaiba's looking very hot with plaster all over him.

Aki sarcastically: Yes, let's all fall for Kaiba and his plastered up face.

Kaiba: I expect this wall to be fixed when I come back.

With that, Kaiba trotted out of the room, back to his office.

Aki: Well, isn't that swell? Anyone here a constructor?

Duke: Your looking at the wrong guy.

Aya: Well, we could use tape.

Ami sarcastically: Yeah, like that'll work.

Yugi: Mokuba, do you have any concrete?

Mokuba: We have some bricks out in the garden.

Ryou: Why don't we get them?

Yami: I'm not too use to building things. I usually get my slaves to build my pyramids for me.

Malik: You know we could always hire someone.

Joey: Now that's an idea I'd love to use.

Bakura: Bloody hell! I'm dying here and all you can think about is a stupid, pathetic wall???

Aya: Hey, hey, hey! We're trying to clean up the mess that YOU made.

Ami: Unless you want to do it, Mr. 'I'm so fingerless and poor'.

Bakura: Damn you to hell! I'll put my damn finger back together again myself!

In a fitful rage, Bakura disappears to the other side.

Joey: Geez, talk about madman rage.

Malik: You know, I think the guy isn't kidding. I think he did chop off his finger.

Yugi: You mean you thought that he was kidding?

Malik: Well, the man kids about a lot of things.

Yami: No. He usually steals.

Duke sarcastically: Yeah, Bakura stole his own finger. Ha ha ha.

Ami: Shouldn't we help him?

Aya: Hmmm...let's think about that, shall we?

Aki: You know the man does have our food.

Joey: Aw, sick! He's covered my ribs in blood!

Mokuba: We could always make new ones.

As the others were about to talk some more about bloody ribs, there was whacking sounds coming from the kitchen, startling the whole bunch. After a few moments of more whacking, there was silence.

Malik: What was that?

Yugi: Omigod! Is Bakura all right?

Yami: I hope so....(not).

Ryou: Isn't that the sound of a kitchen knife?

Everyone looks at each other, worry spreading to their faces.

Ami: So in other words, he's trying to repair his finger by whacking it with a kitchen knife?

Aya: The man's crazy.

Joey: I hope the ribs are okay.

Aki: Nah, he probably ate them all ready. You know how much the guy loves blood.

Mokuba: Ew! Gross!

Yugi wrinkling his nose: You mean he's drinking his own blood?

Duke: That sounds like Bakura.

Joey: Why don't we all just check?

The group nods and walks out of the room in an orderly fashion, not too keen to see what was lying on the other side.

As they stepped into the eerily quiet room, they stopped in their tracks. There was blood everywhere, but no Bakura in site.

Aya: Oh....

Ami: My...

Aki: God....

Duke: Your joking....right?

Ryou: Bakura? Are you in here?

Yugi: It doesn't look like he's in here.

Malik: He's in here all right. The sneaky twit's probably waiting to scare the living day lights out of us.

Mokuba clutched on to Yugi's shirt, shivering in total fear.

Mokuba: I'm scared.

Yami: You should be. Bakura can get scary at times.

Malik: This reminds me of the night Bakura came into the tomb and tried to rob you blind.

Yami: You weren't even born yet when that happened.

Malik: No, but my grandfather (too many greats to say) got so freaked, he wrote it down on paper and made sure everyone remembered the tale by heart.

Joey: What did he do?

Malik: Tried to chew the skin off Yami's carcass.

Yami looking a bit shocked: I thought he bit off someone's neck.

Malik: Yeah, he did that too, but it wasn't on us. It was on you.

Duke: Man, the guy must've had a big grudge on you Yami.

Yami muttering: Indeed.

The three authoresses huddled near the counter, shifting their eyes in all directions, waiting for something to pop up.

Ami in an octave higher voice: I'm scared.

Aki near the verge of tears: I beat you by a mile. I'm near the verge of death scared.

Aya: You do realize your writing this.

Aki: So? I can still scare the stuffing out of me if I want to.

Ami: Your not going to make Bakura pop up on us, are you?

Aki: Hell no! I'm not that stupid!

Aya shuts her eyes tight and places her hands on the table for support. As she does, her hand brushes past something numb.

Aya with her eyes still close: Guys?

Aki: Yo.

Aya: What am I feeling?

Ami: I'm not looking. It could be a head for all we know!

Yami: Hm? What's that your touching, Aya?

Aya: I don't know.

Joey: You don't know?

Aya: I'm not going to look.

Duke: Here, let me see.

With that, Duke walks casually towards Aya and peers through her fingertips at the object in her hand. With one look, he jumps back, knocking into Ryou and Joey in the process.

Duke: Holy mother of pearl!

Joey: Hey! Watch it Duke! I nearly fell on my ass!

Duke: Shit! My eyes! My eyes! (Begins wiping them furiously.)

Yugi: What's wrong?

Aya screams and jerks her hand away from the table knocking all three girls onto the floor.

Aya: What was on my hand?! What was on my hand?! What was on my hand?!

Ami: Hey! Your squishing me-(starts screaming. Aki, in a frightful state, starts screaming with her for no good reason).

Yami: What's wrong?!

Duke: There's a freaking finger on the table!

Ami pointing her finger at the ceiling with her eyes closed: Bakura!

Joey: Bakura? Where?

Malik: Holy mother of god! He's hanging on the ceiling!

Everyone looks up at the ceiling in horror. Sure enough, Bakura was hanging in a crouching position on the ceiling wall, butcher knife in his mouth with blood all over his face. He grinned down at the others insanely, looking as if he hadn't eaten in days.

Bakura in an insanely quiet and eerie voice: Deadly Bakura killed them all,

He gave stupid Yami fortuy whacks
When he saw what he had done,
He gave stupid Seto Fourty-one.

With that, Bakura laughs and laughs and laughs at the petrified bunch.

Yami: He's lost it.

Malik: Totally. This beats the ripping out skin thing.

Joey: I think I've lost my appetite.

Aki clutching to both Ami and Aya in horror: This isn't how it's supposed to be!

Ami: What do you mean??? You're writing this stupid fic!

Aki: Yeah, but I'm scared....but somehow, I think Bakura looks so cute right now.

Aya: I thought you liked Malik.

Aki: Yeah, and you thought Ewan's mole was a pimple.

Yugi: Bakura, stop this right now! Someone's going to get hurt!

Ami: Yeah, like he'll listen.

Aki: You know, Bakura? If you'd just get down from that ceiling, I could patch up your finger.

Bakura with raised eyebrows: I'd like to see you try.

Aki: Just get me a laptop and all shall be fixed.

Mokuba: No problem. Big brother always installs a hidden computer in all of his rooms.

Aya: Figures.

Aki looks up at Bakura: Get down.

Bakura grins at everyone before jumping down, landing in a crouched position once more.

Yami examines Bakura more closely, this time with more amusement in his eyes.

Yami: Nice hand Bakura.

Bakura: Shut up.

In a hurried fashion, Mokuba leads Aki towards a wall. He knocks on it three times before stepping aside. A piece of the wall slides down and a computer screen with a keyboard replaces it.

Aki clapping her hands together: Perfect.

She begins typing furiously on Word Document, smiling all the way through before pressing save a few minutes later.

Everyone waits in silence.

Ami: Nothing's happening.

Aki still on the computer: That's 'cause I haven't uploaded the chapter yet idiot.

With the click of a button, the whole room lights up, blinding the others. Once the room darkened again, the kitchen was totally clean and the wall, flawless. Bakura amazingly looked as good as new, with a handsome grin on his face.

He walks up to Aki and kisses her lightly on the cheek, ruffling her hair right after.

Bakura: Thanks cutey.

Aya and Ami stare at Bakura and a happy looking Aki, soon followed by the others.

Aya: 'He walks up to Aki and kisses her lightly on the cheek'?

Ami: 'Thanks cutey?'

Aki shrugs: Hey. An authoress needs some break every once in a while. Be thankful I didn't put French kiss down.

Bakura blinks several times, looking around his surroundings awkwardly.

Bakura: What the hell just happened?

Aya: You kissed Aki.

Bakura in a state of shock: Why the hell would I do that?

The others back away slowly.

Joey: Man, I'm getting out of here.

Malik: Hey, do you mind stepping away from that keyboard?

Aki: Hey, be grateful you're not fanning me right now.

Aya: Hmmm....Aki? Do you mind giving me that keyboard right now?

Aki: Forget it. I know what you're gonna do. You're gonna get Seto all bunched up and ready to go.

Ami quickly smashes the keyboard before Aki could type anymore on it.

Aki: Hey! What was that for???

Ami: It's for your own good.

Duke in a relieved voice: Thanks. I owe you one.

Ami: Yep. I sure love helping people.

Aya and Aki: Right.

Malik: You know what would cheer us all up right now?

Yugi: What?

Malik: Some booze.

Mokuba: I don't think that's a good idea. Seto's going to get mad at me if we do.

Yami: Fine then. How about some water?

Bakura: Good enough. I'll help pour.

Malik: I'll help too.

Yami: Same here.

The rest exchanged questioning glances at each other.

Ami gesturing to Aya and Aki: No, how about we pour?

The others shook their heads violently.

Duke: Forget it. You three are just as bad as them.

Joey gesturing to Ryou and Yugi: We'll pour.

Before anyone could agree on anything, Bakura, Malik and Yami push the rest out of the room and into the living room.

Yami: Don't worry about anything! Set up a board game while your waiting for your drinks!

Mokuba: I hope they don't damage anything in there.

Aki: Maybe I should use the computer to make sure they're all-

All: NO!!!

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Althe: WHEEHEEE!!!!! DOOOOOONE!!! ^__________^

Did ya like it? Hope so! Spent so much time on this one!....Oh yeah! I forgot to tell you about the true story that inspired me to do these two chappies!

Hmmmm...I'll tell ya next chapter, K? Kinda tired right now....really late --;;;

Well, R+R~!

Ja ne!